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Link – The sooner the better – help children and young people manage emotional wellbeing
This is one approach to the large problem I was talking about earlier this week. Getting emotional support and mental heath resources to people at a young age would help them need it less as adults. “Easing the pressures on children and young people by teaching them how to manage their emotional wellbeing should be…
Sharing – How the Stress of the COVID-19 Pandemic Scrambles Your Brain
It’s not just you feeling drained, and unable to concentrate. “If you know what’s coming, your brain can prepare you to deal with it. If you don’t know but there’s a possibility of harm, your brain gets vigilant, and overactive trying to guess the most likely outcome and execute a coping strategy. Because the best…
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Sharing – Many Sex Offender Registries Are Rife With Errors
The whole idea of a registry was to ease the minds of panicked parents so they would check the public registry, know that their lovely, upper-class neighborhood didn’t have any offenders in it, and go back to ignoring any talk of their kids being at risk for sexual abuse.
None of that has ever been true. As you read the story below, you’ll see that there are 25,000 offenders that law enforcement has completely lost track of, many of whom now live among poor communities where parents do not have the same resources that others do to keep their kids safe and have continued to offend.
What you also won’t see is that registries do nothing, absolutely nothing, to protect against offenders who haven’t been caught and convicted. That would be the vast majority of cases, by the way.